US Vice President Joe Biden pressed Iraq Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in a telephone call Friday to bar the passage of weapons shipments to Syria through Iraqi airspace, the White House said. "The vice president and the prime minister addressed issues of regional security, including the need to prevent any state from taking advantage of Iraq's territory or air space to send weapons to Syria," the statement said.
Earlier this month, the United States called on Iraq to make Iranian aircraft flying over Iraq land for inspections, after members of the US Congress raised fears the Iranian planes were ferrying weapons to the Syrian regime.
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